IT Innovation Research Articles

Healthcare IT Innovations and Cost Savings: Explore How Recent Innovations in Healthcare IT Have led to Cost Savings and Economic Benefits within the Healthcare System

Healthcare IT Innovations and Cost Savings: Explore How Recent Innovations in Healthcare IT Have led to Cost Savings and Economic Benefits within the Healthcare System

IMPACT OF PERSONNELS' RECEPTIVITY OF INNOVATIONS ON IT INNOVATIONS IMPLEMENTATION

The article analyzes the level of perception of IT innovations and its impact on the state of innovative receptivity of staff in an organization. In this regard, Adapting the staff to changes and managing the innovation implementation process become acute issues for the firm.

The Politics of Ethics and Sustainability

Abstract Dr. Denise Oram MBCS, Senior Lecturer at Glyndwr University, examines how business must balance innovation in IT with both recycling and the ethical demands of society.

Research and Development: Key Factor For IT Innovation and Creativity

By reading and through this explorative research paper, you will learn so much about research and development, and how research and development is related with Innovation and Creativity. You will have an opportunity to understand different types of research designs, the importance of research, the benefits of research and development, as well as how to manage the whole research process in developing or solving different problem in a community or company or organization. However, you will learn how research and development has impacted other business and organization worldwide toward economic growth, products and services improvements as well as social-economic development and growth.

GREENTECH: An Innovative IT Solution for Waste Management

Nowadays, mobile application development offers an innovative field for modernization. However, we cannot deny that we are facing the greatest environmental challenge, wastes management. Opportunities in enhancing the community's waste management practices have become easier with the progress of mobile application development. This paper aims to support every individual in strengthening their waste management practices within the community. The study focuses on designing a mobile application as an innovative IT solution in helping the community in improving its waste management. The researcher used a co-design methodology to define the content features, system requirements and to identify the user of the system. This framework and design consideration are recommended for utilization and implementation, to aid every member of the community in their waste management practices through an innovative solution. The result of the study helps individuals appreciate the importance of emerging technology in the solution to climate change. This shows that IT innovation is a great opportunity in improving the waste management habits of every individual. Somehow, this study helps individuals to recognize the importance of mobile technology as a solution to global concerns associated with climate change.

Information and Communication Technologies in the Teaching of Disciplines of Professional Cycle

Today, information technology is being introduced into almost all components of human life and it is already difficult to imagine our society without IT innovations. Including the education system, which is currently modernized and equipped with new forms of training using information technology. This allows us to achieve new results in education in the form of increasing students' desire for cognitive activity and raising the general level of education of the population due to the rapidly growing quality of education. Since the introduction and active use of information technology in education, its effectiveness has also been increasing in parallel. The advantage of information technology is also that different technologies can be used depending on the particular discipline taught or depending on the topic, material that needs to be presented to students. To increase interest and master new material of the proposed audience by the teacher. This article analyzes the use of IT technology in the Engineering Graphics training course. Optimization of engineering graphics training consists in its modernization with the selection of new teaching methods, tools and techniques, use in the learning process, to increase efficiency, innovative technologies that contribute to the formation of students' creative way of thinking, as well as graphic culture.

A service-dominant logic perspective on the roles of technology in service innovation: uncovering four archetypes in the sharing economy

The role and influence of information technology in firms’ business and value creation remains controversial. The question of how technology can drive service innovations is especially crucial in highly competitive and rapidly developing areas such as digital platforms but not well understood. This study investigates the role of information technology in service innovation in sharing economy organizations. These organizations are digital platforms that combine physical and digital service elements. Adopting a service-dominant logic perspective, we conduct an interpretive multiple-case study to gain a deeper understanding of the types of service innovation in this area and the different roles that IT can play in these initiatives. Our findings reveal different manifestations of service innovation and thereby help to identify previously unexplored interdependencies between the service ecosystem and value co-creation. We furthermore find that organizations’ choices regarding the role of IT are dependent on the level of heterogeneity and standardization of the mediated transactions. We derive four archetypes for the role of IT in service innovation that explain how and why sharing economy organizations exploit IT. We then translate our findings into practical guidelines for managers of digital platforms.

Quality management in optimizing software product profile

The article investigates the quality of a software product sold by “Svyazcom Ltd.”, a developer in the field of mobile communications and Internet, and created at various times by several programmers. It is shown that the application of the computer analysis permits to verify 86 indicators relevant to the quality parameters in the shell CppDepend, which meets the requirements of the assigned task most adequately. The analysis resulted in an optimized product profile. Proposals are presented for updating the quality management mechanisms in an innovative IT company taking into account the obtained values of quality parameters.

Probe into the Training Path of Local College IT Talents Based on International Perspective

It is an inevitable requirement for economic and industrial development to train IT professionals with international perspective in the era of big data. At present, there are still many shortcomings in the international talent training of local universities in China. For example, the existing training methods cannot meet the needs of international IT professionals, the lack of teachers with international vision, and the single form of talent exchange. International IT professionals need to have international cooperation, cross-border thinking, diversified knowledge structure, and innovative practice capabilities. By strengthening teacher construction, reforming teaching models, enriching exchanges and cooperation, and creating an international campus atmosphere, we will explore and cultivate innovative IT talents in local universities with international perspectives.

Public and private value in citizen participation in E-governance: Evidence from a government-sponsored green commuting platform

Citizen participation in E-governance is, essentially, a social exchange between individuals and their government through which the citizen creates public value as well as acquires private value. The direct effects of participation antecedents on participation outcomes have been fully examined, but few researchers have investigated the internal mechanism of citizen participation at the level of psychological value perception. The roles of perceived public and private value between the participation antecedents and outcomes remain unclear. Private value merits careful research in particular as the E-governance environment is being shaped by increasing privatization and continuous IT innovation. Based on the cognitive integration theory and the civic voluntarism model, this paper proposes a theoretical framework to examine the mediating roles of two values. We built a complete research model encompassing ten hypotheses centered on citizen e-participation in the context of green commuting governance. By analyzing survey data on a green commuting platform, we demonstrate the significant mediating effects of these two values and greater effect of private value acquisition on continuous e-participation intentions than public value creation. Our results have important research implications in regards to the roles of perceived values in participation, especially perceived private value.

A validation of security determinants model for cloud adoption in Saudi organisations’ context

Governments across the world are starting to make a dynamic shift to cloud computing so as to increase efficiency. Although, the cloud technology brings various benefits for government organisations, including flexibility and low cost, adopting it with the existing system is not an easy task. In this regard, the most significant challenge to any government agency is security concern. Our previous study focused to identify security factors that influence decision of government organisations to adopt cloud. This research enhances the previous work by investigating on the impact of various independent security related factors on the adopted security taxonomy based on critical ratio, standard error and significance levels. Data was collected from IT and security experts in the government organisations of Saudi Arabia. The Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) tool was used in this research for data analysis. Critical ratio reveals the importance of Security Benefits, Risks and Awareness Taxonomies on cloud adoption. Also, most of the exogenous variables had strong and positive relationships with their fellow exogenous variables. In future, this taxonomy model can also be applied for studying the adoption of new IT innovations whose IT architecture is similar to that of the cloud.

It Needs More Than Just User Participation: Combining Perspectives of Clinical Leaders and Chief Information Officers on Determinants of Hospitals' IT Innovativeness.

Although user participation may facilitate the realisation of IT innovations, various literature analyses show only minimal to moderate evidence for such effects possibly due to disregard of mediating factors. Against this background, this study examines the extent to which joint intrapreneurship of clinical leaders and IT leaders as well as a distinct innovation culture mediate the effect of user participation on hospitals' IT innovativeness. IT innovativeness was measured by the availability and usability of IT functions and by the perceived 'innovative power' of a hospital. An empirical model was developed and tested with data from 168 clinical leaders and IT leaders who participated pairwise in a survey representing 84 German hospitals. Three parallel mediation analyses indicated that the participation of users could only lead to IT innovativeness if they were accompanied by intrapreneurial leadership on the part of clinical directors and IT leaders and if a pronounced innovation culture prevailed.

Critical influential determinants of IT innovation adoption at organisational level in local government context

Local government may face different challenges in adopting IT innovation due to its unique characteristic in terms of business functions which dealt directly with the citizens, organisational type, structure, and geographic location. To date, although numerous review studies on IT innovation adoption have been carried out, nevertheless there are obvious limitations in a local government context. Hence, this study aims to put forward an explanation for critical influential determinants of IT innovation adoption in local government contexts by reviewing related works from the year 2013 to 2017. This study has identified influential technological, organisational, individual, and environmental determinants of IT innovation adoption in a local government context. The most striking finding is that critical influential determinants of IT innovation in local government context were organisational (leadership, governance), technological (perceived benefits, cost), individual (personnel skills), and environmental (policy and regulations, citizen influence). The results from this study will help other researchers to understand the critical influential determinants of IT innovation adoption, particularly in a local government context.

ІННОВАЦІЙНІ ІНСТРУМЕНТИ РОЗВИТКУ РЕГІОНАЛЬНОГО ТУРИЗМУ

Ukraine, having lost its positive image as a country safe for traveling, faced the problem of its restoration. It is necessary to start from the own population, which instead of native regions of permanent residence preferring to have vacation on abroad resorts. Therefore, the search of innovative tools for the restoration of regional tourism is an urgent problem for most regions of Ukraine. The purpose of the research – definition of modern problems and systematization of relevant innovative tools for the development of regional tourism, taking into account the existing conditions for the functioning of the national tourism industry. The object of the research: theoretical and applied aspects concerning application of relative innovative tools for the development of tourism industry at the regional level. The methods of the research: systematic approach, structural-logical and statistical analysis, synthesis and generalization. The hypothesis of the research: envisages the use of the approach by which the development of tourism at the regional level should be fully harmonized with the overall strategy of the territory and state development strategy taking into account the needs of all stakeholders. The statement of basic materials. Overview of previous research and current trends of national tourism industry development in the context of certain territories and regions has allowed to identify six main problems and three groups of topical innovative tools for the development of regional tourism, among them: the introduction of the social dialogue concept and the formation of social partnership on its basis; branding of the area as an effective tool for managing the image of the territory; using technology "product placement" and IT innovations. The originality and practical significance of the research: the presented proposals are especially relevant for the old industrial regions and separated depressed territories, for which the development of the tourism industry on the basis of its own tourist flows will overcome the systemic socio-economic crisis. Conclusions. The proposed innovative tourism development tools at the regional level are not absolute innovations for Ukraine, but their distribution should have a lasting character for all without exception areas, which will solve most of the identified problems.

Developing an approach to ranking innovative IT projects

Цифровая трансформация бизнеса - актуальная задача для многих компаний. Ее неотъемлемой частью является применение «прорывных» технологий. Сегодня между понятием «инновации» и «информационные технологии» часто ставится знак равенства, поскольку именно ИТ способны обеспечить реализацию инновационной стратегии и цифровую трансформацию бизнеса. Из-за высокой скорости развития ИТ-рынка и появления новых технологий компании часто внедряют их без обоснованного отбора и ранжирования, что приводит к высокой доле провальных инновационных ИТ-проектов. Часто в результате реализации проекта компания не получает коммерчески успешный продукт или услугу, которые выделяются среди конкурентов с точки зрения потребителя. Основным подходом к оценке и ранжированию инновационных ИТ-проектов остается анализ финансовых показателей на основе ожидаемых результатов, при этом оценка стратегической согласованности проекта игнорируется. В рамках исследования предложено решение для ранжирования инновационных ИТ-проектов в крупных компаниях. Подход заключается в комплексной оценке влияния предполагаемых результатов проекта на стратегический, окружающий, организационный и технологический аспекты компании. В основу подхода легла модифицированная модель принятия инноваций Фляйшера-Торняцки. На первом этапе исследования определено понятие инноваций, выделены особенности инновационных проектов в сфере информационных технологий. На втором этапе проведен сравнительный анализ подходов к оценке инновационных проектов, выбрана и модифицирована модель принятия ИТ-инноваций, которая легла в основу предлагаемого подхода. На третьем этапе выполнена апробация подхода в крупной российской ИТ-компании в сфере интернет-технологий. По имеющимся данным, за два года применения подхода подтверждена его адекватность и предложены перспективы его развития.

Investigating the influence of organizational factors on blockchain adoption

PurposeBlockchain possesses the potential to disrupt and reshape a plethora of industries in the next decade. However, blockchain adoption rates in technology developed countries, such as Ireland, are relatively low. Motivated by blockchain’s potential to transform sociotechnical systems, the lack of systematic inquiry pertaining to blockchain studies from an information system perspective, the authors propose the following research question: “How do organizational factors influence blockchain adoption in organizations based in a developed country?” Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to elucidate the impact of organizational factors on the adoption of blockchain and the adoption of blockchain in companies based in Ireland.Design/methodology/approachA comprehensive literature review was conducted, and the methods of qualitative content analysis were used to identify the most important technology–organization–environment (TOE) blockchain adoption factors. Organizational factors are often viewed as the most significant determinants of IT innovation adoption in organizations. Consequently, using a multiple-case study of 20 companies based in Ireland, the authors investigate how the top three organizational factors identified from the blockchain literature affected these companies decision to adopt or not adopt blockchain.FindingsThe literature review on blockchain adoption identified specific technological, organizational and environmental factors. Furthermore, the case study findings identified three patterns: top management support and organizational readiness are enablers for blockchain adoption, and large companies are more likely to adopt blockchain than small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors explain these patterns by examining the nature of blockchain and the characteristics of Ireland as a developed country. Practical and scientific contributions are also presented.Research limitations/implicationsThis study makes several important scientific contributions. First, the findings revealed that top management support and organizational readiness are significant enablers of blockchain adoption. Ireland is recognized as a technology developed country; however, the findings in relation to top management support contradict existing IT adoption literature pertaining to developed countries. Second, previous IT innovation adoption literature suggests that organizations size has a positive influence on a company’s IT innovation adoption process. This study demonstrates that large organizations are more likely to not only adopt blockchain but are also more likely to conduct increased levels of blockchain research and development activities. Finally, and most significantly, the authors identified several patterns, which relate specifically to Ireland as a developed country that influenced the findings. These findings could hold particular relevance to governments and organizations of other developed countries in terms of accelerating blockchain adoption.Practical implicationsThe findings about the low level of blockchain awareness and the lack of information pertaining to viable business use cases indicate that the Irish government could play a more significant role in promoting the benefits of blockchain technologies. Further, the findings could also encourage IT providers to formulate enhanced strategies aimed at disseminating information pertaining to blockchain technologies. Second, the positive influence of top management support and organizational readiness, particularly about core competencies, on blockchain adoption suggests that equipping managers with the requisite knowledge and skills will be crucial in adopting these IT innovations. Finally, organizations who adopted blockchain used cloud-based blockchain platforms and tools to overcome the constraints of their initial low levels of organizational readiness.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to identify specific TOE blockchain adoption factors. Further, the authors examine how the three most identified organizational adoption factors impact organizations decisions to adopt blockchain. Finally, the authors discuss how the resulting three patterns identified by examining the nature of blockchain and the characteristics of Ireland as a technology developed country.

Continuous intracranial pressure monitoring in severe traumatic brain injury in children

We present the results of the Romanian team for the multi-center grant “Paediatric Brain Monitoring with Information Technology (KidsBrainIT). Using IT Innovations to Improve Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury Intensive Care Management, Outcome, and Patient Safety”, acronym KidsBrainIT. Children aged 2 to 16 years who require intensive care management after sustaining traumatic severe brain injury are included in this study in three neurosurgical hospital: "Prof. Dr. N. Oblu" Clinical Emergency Hospital Iasi, "Sf. Maria" Children Clinical Emergency Hospital Iasi and "Bagdasar-Arseni" Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest. Continuous real-time intracranial pressure monitoring became a "gold standard" in TBI intensive-care management and ICP-lowering therapy is recommended when ICP is elevated above 20 mmHg or more. Continuous ICP and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) monitoring allow calculation of cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) and to establish of an optimal CPP. This study aims to improve the treatments and the outcomes in severe traumatic brain injury in children.

IT Reliability and Innovation in SMEs: Empirical Research

IT Reliability and Innovation in SMEs: Empirical Research

Ideologies implicated in IT innovation in government: A critical discourse analysis of Mexico's international trade administration

AbstractWe develop a perspective of IT innovation in the public sector as a process that involves three complementary areas of ideology and concomitant dispute: first, the widespread view of e‐government as a transformative force that leads to major improvements of public sector functions for the benefit of society at large; second, ideologies concerning the substantive policies enacted by public sector organizations; and third, ideology regarding public sector modernization. Our research examines how the objectives of IT projects and their actual effects in government are influenced by such ideologies and contestations that surround them. We develop our theoretical contribution with a critical discourse analysis that traces the ideological underpinnings of two consecutive IT projects for the administration of international trade in Mexico. This analysis associates the objectives of the IT projects with the emergence and ensuing contestation in Mexican politics of two ideologies: the first ideology concerns free international trade as imperative for economic development; the second ideology concerns public sector modernization that sought to overcome historically formed dysfunctionalities of public administration bureaucracies by adopting management practices from the private sector. The analysis then identifies the effects of the ideologically shaped IT projects on two key values of public administration: efficiency and legality. The insights of this research on the role of ideology in IT innovation complement organizational perspectives of e‐government; socio‐cognitive perspectives that focus on ideas and meaning, such as technology frames and organizing visions; and perspectives that focus on politics in IT innovation.

Technostress and the hierarchical levels of personality: a two-wave study with multiple data samples

ABSTRACTEven though IS use has numerous benefits for users and organisations, such as improved user performance and greater productivity, an increasing number of users experience technostress. Since technostress can result in decreased user well-being, it is important to understand what leads users to perceive it. Recent technostress research points to the relationship between personality traits and the perception of technostress as a research gap. Given that personality traits are structured hierarchically, we study how and which levels of user personality influence the perception of technostress. In developing our research model, we select personality traits from the three hierarchical levels of personality: neuroticism, personal innovativeness in IT (PIIT), and IT mindfulness. The results of 2 two-wave studies analysing data collected in an organisational setting (sample 1) and through mTurk (sample 2) reveal that all three personality traits influence the perception of technostress, with IT mindfulness having the strongest impact. This study contributes by revealing that user personality and, primarily, IT mindfulness influence the perception of technostress. Additionally, our findings reveal an inverted u-curved influence of techno-stressors on user performance, deepening our understanding of how the perception of technostress influences user reactions.